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Open today from 9am to 6pm  •  March 20, 2010

Express Book Group in a Bag titles were created for situations when a book group may need a book title immediately, without first making a reservation. Express Book Group in a Bag titles can be checked out from the Reference Desk at the library on a walk-in basis. Reservations are not required for these titles, and an available Express Book Group in a Bag title can be checked out promptly on a valid library card. Like our traditional Book Group in a Bag service, these titles check out for 6 weeks and must be returned to the Reference Desk.

Titles

Under the Tuscan Sun

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Francis Mayes buys and renovates an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, describing all in her 1996 book.  An accomplished cook and food writer, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. 

Virgin of Small Plains

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Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl is found in a field. Seventeen years later, three families and three friends, their worlds inexorably altered in the course of one night, must confront the ever-unfolding consequences in award-winning author Nancy Pickard’s remarkable 2006 novel of suspense.

Washburn’s iRead program selects ‘Three Cups of Tea’

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time is the fall 2008 book selected for Washburn University’s iRead program. The book is written by Greg Mortenson and acclaimed journalist, David Oliver Relin. Mortenson is scheduled to speak at Washburn on Thursday, Nov. 20.

Water for Elephants

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As a young man in the great Depression, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. For Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers in this 2006 novel was both his salvation and a living hell.

We Need to Talk about Kevin

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In this gripping 2003 novel about motherhood gone awry,  Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.
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